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Finlay Bridge closing next week for Second Avenue work
By Collin Gallant on May 3rd, 2018
Medicine Hat News The continuation of sewer and water line replacement in Riverside this spring will mean Finlay Bridge will be closed next week until mid-June, the city’s environmental utility department said Wednesday. The work, to replace and enlarge sanitary and storm sewer, as well as water lines that date back 100 years, will also ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mini boom continues with Flying J
By Collin Gallant on May 3rd, 2018
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com @CollinGallant What’s that being built near the Trans-Canada Highway in Brier Park? It’s a pot plant! It’s a cryptocurrency mine! No! It’s a Flying J! Ground broke last month on the truckstop, fuel station and restaurant, which is located on Saamis Drive but highly visible from the TCH. With so many high profile projects ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Len Mitzel Meadow officially named
By Gillian Slade on May 3rd, 2018
gslade@medicinehatnews.com @MHNGillianSlade One of the daffodil planting sites was officially renamed “Len Mitzel Meadow” in a ceremony Wednesday honouring the late MLA for Cypress-Medicine Hat. “He was a person who cared for everybody and everything, and great to work with. I miss him,” said Adair Prouty, who donated 20,000 bulbs to The Daffodil Project ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Special Areas Board reappoints chair
By Collin Gallant on May 2nd, 2018
Medicine Hat News Jordon Christianson has been reappointed chair of the Special Areas Board, according to the latest list of orders in council for the provincial cabinet. The announcement, made Tuesday, sees Christianson reappointed to the board that advises government on operating the large, sparsely populated special municipalities in east central Alberta. His term will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Time served for man who fled police, throwing drugs away as he did
By Peggy Revell on May 2nd, 2018
prevell@medicinehatnews.com @MHNprevell A Hatter who fled from police while throwing away packages of heroin and marijuana received a sentence of 35 days time served. Jason Baynham pled down from two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking to simple possession Tuesday at the Medicine Hat Courthouse for an incident that kicked off following an ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Woman charged in city’s largest meth bust granted bail
By Peggy Revell on May 2nd, 2018
prevell@medicinehatnews.com @MHNprevell Bail was granted Tuesday to a Medicine Hat woman charged with cocaine trafficking, as well as what police say is the largest meth bust on record for the city. With the agreement of the Crown, 47-year-old Shonna Scriven was released on a $5,000 surety put up by family, with whom she will reside ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Several Hatters expected to attend UCP convention
By Gillian Slade on May 2nd, 2018
gslade@medicinehatnews.com @MHNGillianSlade About 40 people from Medicine Hat are expected to attend the United Conservative Party annual general meeting and founding convention in Red Deer this weekend. “There will be many people from Medicine Hat and Cypress-Medicine Hat. I’m thinking about 40,” said Cypress-Medicine Hat MLA Drew Barnes. About 2,200 people have already registered ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Farmland continues to increase in value
By Collin Gallant on May 2nd, 2018
Medicine Hat News Farmland continues to climb in value in 2017, with buyers of Alberta cropland and range paying 7.3 per cent more for acres last year. In southern Alberta, not including the region directly surrounding Calgary, but the Highway 2 corridor to Lethbridge, as well as the southeast quadrant, the jump was 11.4 per ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Connie Oakes files suit against Medicine Hat police, local prosecutor
By Peggy Revell on May 1st, 2018
prevell@medicinehatnews.com @MHNprevell Multiple members of the Medicine Hat Police Service and a local Crown prosecutor are being sued for $1 million by Connie Oakes over her arrest, and ensuing years of trial and imprisonment surrounding the 2011 murder of Casey Armstrong. Papers filed in the Court of Queen’s Bench on April 27 allege police and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!City’s natural gas price drops to lowest level in at least 15 years
By Medicine Hat News on May 1st, 2018
The City of Medicine Hat has set its monthly utility rate and the price of natural gas has plummeted to the lowest price in at least 15 years. The posted commodity rate for natural gas sits at $0.796 per gigajoule, down sharply from April’s rate of $2.082, and representing a drop of about 60 per ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Medicine Hat won’t get any provincial flood protection grants this year
By Collin Gallant on May 1st, 2018
cgallant@medicinehatnews.com @CollinGallant There will be no money specifically for the City of Medicine Hat in this year’s outlay of provincial flood protection grants, which were announced on Tuesday. Each year since the 2013 floods in Medicine Hat and southern Alberta, city officials have applied to the Alberta Community Resiliency Program as the major funding source ... Read More »
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